Several community and environmental groups have submitted a request to the U.S. EPA to consider suspending Ohio's authority to regulate drilling-waste disposal, the Associated Pressreports.

The call comes from ProgressOhio, the Ohio office of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice and the Buckeye Forest Council. The EPA's Chicago office is reviewing the request, an agency spokesman told AP.

The groups also asked the EPA to conduct a full audit of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' regulatory programs over the wells.

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